My 5cm: Mount Zugspitze

Coincidentally, i remembered a film named 5 cm.

5 cm is the distance that you should set up (in your imaginative world) between your eyes and your dream.

As it is only 5 cm far away from you, you may not forget about it and it will come true.

As the dream climbing the highest mountain in Java Island that Zafran dkk set up, i had a dream to climb the highest mountain in Germany.

On September 2012 i did it with one of my best friends, Dita.

I took regional trains from Heidelberg to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. On the way to Garmisch, we took a photo of a mountain in the area. I was so excited, what kind of adventure was waiting right there?

After arriving at Garmisch, we built a tent and bought some food and drinks for the tomorrow adventure. We also made a planning what we would do tomorrow.

On the next day, we bought two day-tickets of funicular with a reasonable price because we were still students. It was only 42.5 Euro per Person.

First, we took a funicular to to the foot of mountain Alpspitze, the neighbor of Zugspitze. This photo was taken from 1000 meters above the sea level. We could enjoy a beautiful view from this level. Unfortunately, the weather was not very nice. It was cloudy.

Then, we continued our journey, walked for about 2 2km till we found another funicular station. We took that funicular and reached a height of 1600 meters. There was only a very thin layer of snow there. Actually, we could still climb the mountain till the peak (about 2600 meters). But there was no funicular to reach it. While i wanted to climb the highest one, we just took some photos here and then went down. (and of course i did planking too here, because i was so amazed with the beautiful view i could see from the panorama platform).

Another thing that impressed me was this funicular. It could bring us from a height of 700m to 2000m. Wonderful technology!

We continued then our climb to Zugspitze. We took a special train that brought us to 2500m above the sea level. As we went out from the train station, we belonged to a few people that saw snow in the summer.

Then we just went up again to a height of 2800m. We could see that we were above the clouds. The wind was so strong there and it was really cold. We walked again and we met a warning sign: "Here you leave safety area alpine dangers".

 Nobody may enter this area without any practices before or suitable equipments. But we were still young and we wanted to reach the peak. With full of brave we started to do the real climb.

Aaand we did it.

We were on the top of Germany, Zugspitze 2962 meters!

We could also show to the world that we could do anything if we just believe that we can do it.

After that, we went down with the hi-tech funicular (this time from 2500m to 750m) and saw another beautiful views and finally landed to the earth.

Before we left Garmisch, Dita took a photo of me with the mountains that we defeated together in the background. I will never forget this adventure..!!!